Vince, You also need to escape the $, so instead of ." if ($_GET...... use ." if (\$_GET.....
You may have to escape the single quotes. I have written two pretty lame code generators. The first one did not use "templates", the second one does. You've got the lines of code in your "builder" script. I recommend moving those lines of code out, and put them into a template, then use str_replace() to change the template as/where needed. chris -----Original Message----- From: Vince LaMonica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 1:20 AM To: PHP-General Subject: [PHP] using fwrite to create PHP files Hi all, I wish to use fwrite() to create a small PHP file. So far, when I attempt to do this, php parses the contents of the file that fwrite needs to create. Eg, I have this: $new_id = mysql_insert_id(); // create brand new file $new_file = fopen("/var/www/html/$sitename/$submitted_url", "w"); $new_file_content = "\n" ." <?php \n" ." if ($_GET['preview'] == \"y\") { \n" ." readfile(\"http://www.foo.bar/${'sitename'}.display?${'sitename'}id=$new_id& preview=y\"); \n" ." } else { \n" ." readfile(\"http://www.foo.bar/${'sitename'}.display?${'sitename'}id=$new_id\ "); \n" ." } \n" ." ?>"; write($new_file, $new_file_content); fclose($new_file); Note that $sitename is defined earlier in the script. I know that $new_id and $sitename get expanded, as I tried this: $new_file_content = "hello world. Look at my ${'sitename'}.display and my $new_id"; and the new file was created with the above text and the two vars expanded. My problem lies in the fact that I need to put "<?php" tags inside the contents of $new_file_content. I'm not sure how to do that w/o generating lots of errors. As you can see in my above example, I've tried to escape the double quotes, but that didn't seem to help. PHP insists on processing the "if" line instead of ignoring it. I'm running 4.3.3 under apache 1.3.28. Any help would be most appreciated! /vjl/ -- Vince LaMonica UC Irvine, School of Social Ecology W3 Developer <*> 116 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.seweb.uci.edu/techsupport Tower: "Delta Zulu Romeo, turn right now and report your heading." Pilot: "Wilco. 341, 342, 343, 344, 345..." -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
